http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=81268
May 06, 2008
The head of the detectives union is going to Washington to ask the Feds not to bring civil rights charges against the officers acquitted in the Sean Bell shooting.
Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino and union lawyers, are set to meet tomorrow with Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. They are also scheduled meet with New York Congressman Jerry Nadler.
Conyers and Nadler traveled to Queens to meet with Bell's supporters last month, and Palladino says he wants the lawmakers to hear the detectives' side of the story.
Meanwhile, Reverend Al Sharpton says he plans to be arrested tomorrow as he organizes a number of pray-ins and acts of civil disobedience at locations across the city.
Sharpton says Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell and Bell's friend Joseph Guzman also hope to be arrested.
Sharpton says he is building up to a demonstration that will shut down the city. He's also warning people participating in the pray-ins that they should be prepared to go to jail.
May 06, 2008
The head of the detectives union is going to Washington to ask the Feds not to bring civil rights charges against the officers acquitted in the Sean Bell shooting.
Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino and union lawyers, are set to meet tomorrow with Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. They are also scheduled meet with New York Congressman Jerry Nadler.
Conyers and Nadler traveled to Queens to meet with Bell's supporters last month, and Palladino says he wants the lawmakers to hear the detectives' side of the story.
Meanwhile, Reverend Al Sharpton says he plans to be arrested tomorrow as he organizes a number of pray-ins and acts of civil disobedience at locations across the city.
Sharpton says Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell and Bell's friend Joseph Guzman also hope to be arrested.
Sharpton says he is building up to a demonstration that will shut down the city. He's also warning people participating in the pray-ins that they should be prepared to go to jail.
"This, too, shall pass." 
